says “it might be a description of watson!” when lestrade is describing a crime scene (this is because it is in fact watson)
gets dressed up and masks in shit for a breakin (the watson-description one) like holmes it’s a break-in not a date
to be fair it might be both for him
goes up to watson when he is first meeting him and essentially drags this complete stranger over to look at the cool Science he just did
doesn’t know that the earth goes around the sun at first (study in scarlet)
watson’s reply, verbatim: “But the Solar System!” I protested. (study in scarlet)
rips on fictional detectives, calling one “a very inferior fellow” and the other “a miserable bungler”, “in an angry voice” at that (study in scarlet)
deduces too much about watson’s older brother and makes watson sad (sign of the four)
is sexist -> a woman outsmarts him to be with the person she loves -> stops being sexist (scandal in bohemia, that’s the plot)
when watson tries to go to give the king privacy, he “pushe[s] [him] back into [his] chair” and says they’re a packaged deal (bohemia)
IN THE ADVENTURE WHERE HE COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD says “journeys end in lovers’ meetings” which to be fair is a quote from shakespeare and isn’t to watson but HOLY HELL
shakes the hand of a baby
shoots a patriotic slogan in the wall cause he’s bored
gets hobbies (medieval pottery, miracle plays, Buddhism of Sri Lanka…)
pestered watson about how watson wrote the stories and made it all romantic (true) until Watson said “Try it yourself, Holmes!” (canon), so he did, and promptly says that Watson is “an ideal helpmate” although he had at the time “deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association. I was alone” like DAMN
plays music at weird hours
kept his tobacco in a Persian slipper
shoots up the wall with a patriotic slogan for no reason whatsoever
retires to sussex to keep bees which is just idk really freaking cute
deduces with his brother and it’s adorable and I love them so much